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At least I can always count on Team Rocket to make things interesting. Like I said with the previous episode, I'm not that fond of the Volkner/Flint episodes, but this was the best one. It's too bad the episode is a little too much like season seven's "It's Still Rocket Roll to Me", except that Team Rocket succeeds in stealing *and* flying the rocket this time, but otherwise it's a good episode. Plus, Grotle evolves, which is great.

7/10

New shinies week of 9/7-9/14: None, playing Moon
New shinies week of 9/14-9/21: None, playing Moon

This episode was cool and action-packed. Ash and Volkner's battle begins, Ash sent out Grotle and Volkner sent out Luxray. Grotle and Luxray's battle was going good ...... but suddenly the lights went out and the robotic gym referee went out of commission, which caused the gym battle to be canceled.
Later they found out that Team Rocket is the main source of the problem, they turned the Sunyshore tower into a rocket and were trying to flew away with it. Ash and Volkner were able to get into the tower in time. It's funny when the cute Nurse Joy requested Brock to work and he grabbed her hand all of sudden....but as usual, Croagunk Poison Jabbed him.

I liked the part where Ash and Volkner fought Team Rocket and during the fight Ash's Grotle evolved into a Torterra. Torterra learning Leaf storm after evolving was cool.
I'm glad they were able to return the tower back to it's original position, but Volkner's gym got dameged. Which means Ash has to come back later for the gym battle.
So The group left Sunyshore City and headed for Valor Lakefront, where the grand festival is located.
It was disapointing that Ash's gym battle was delayed, but I guess the writers wanted to stretch the DP saga till the 5th Generation comes out.

So, Grotle's evolution episode, sure glad grotle evolved for all the good it did him..........

but seriously, grotle was a fairly competent battler, and torterra has such a badass design, yet they only gave him losses, I get that infernape was the main starter, but it was still kinda shitty to watch them favor one starter over another, and at least bulbasaur and squirtle got to appear more due to being small, cute and markedable, which cant really said about tortera.

Nagisa City's tower being modeled off of the Tower of the Sun was such a cool concept. I didn't think that Hayashigame should've evolved here, though. My reasoning being that the Rocket-dan's theft of the tower as well as Denzi's presence overshadowed Dodaitose in the end.

This was also a good episode, but I didn't like it quite as much as the one before it. I guess I still feel like all of Team Rocket's antics are old, but this was a lot more advanced than usual. It still amazes me that Ash hasn't yet learned that Team Rocket always finds some way to neutralize Pikachu's electric attacks.

This episode kind of annoyed me a bit. There was rather boring and robotic dialogue throughout the episode, so it wasn't an enjoyable watch. The plot was good though, and I liked how Gible actually did something.